The ground shook and split open as skeletons emerged walking out with swords and what looked to be uniforms from past wars. They looked at me with a sense of urgency seeing me bruised, they turned towards the beast and charged at it. Seeing as the skeletons were here to help us, I charged towards the beast and distracted it by throwing my purple flames at its face. Mike turned and faced me,
“Jackson keep it busy, if I get a chance and cut its tail off its good as dead!” I nodded, turning towards the beast and screaming at it, “Hey look at me, come here ugly!” The Manticore snarled at me and while it got distracted Mike came up from behind it and swung his sword down chopping off its tail. The Manticore wailed in pain as it slowly died into golden dust. We were both panting hard as we heard Xander clapping his hands slowly, “Well, well it looks like you actually killed it. This isn’t the last time you see me you punks.” Xander spoke while running away with his gang. Me and Mike both looked at each other exhausted. “What the heck just happened how did we do all that?” I asked confused. “I really don’t know but think maybe your mom knows something about us and why we have these powers. Maybe it has something to do with our dads.” Mike said with all seriousness. “Maybe you're right let’s go to my place we’ll ask my mom there alright?” Mike nodded at me and we started heading back to my place.
We were a few minutes away from my house, when the flashbacks of that manticore made me think really hard about what's going on with both of us. Mike saw me panicking when he laid his hand on my shoulder and spoke with a reassuring smile, “Don’t worry, we'll get to the bottom of this.” I just nodded at him when we entered my home. We saw my mom and walked towards her. She must’ve heard us because she turned around, “Jackson, Mike hi- why are you guys bruised up like this. What happened!” She ran over to us and tried to see if we were ok.